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Lester E Cox Medical Centers
Max D Buetow, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
Schedule H Part I line 7a
Most of the reported compensation ($1,641,774 of $1,977,250) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.
§1The filing
- Total revenue
- $2,386,317,626
- Total expenses
- $2,316,687,643
- Net assets
- $1,674,563,486
- Employees
- 13,620
- Hospitals covered
- 6 facilities across 4 filings
- Charity care, net
- $50,216,142
- Bad debt
- $145,128,428
- Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
- ($212,869,831)
- CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
- $0
- From related organizations (col. E)
- $1,641,774
- Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
- $335,476
- CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
- $1,977,250 to Max D Buetow
Medicare surplus (shortfall) is Schedule H Part III line 7: Medicare revenue minus the cost of Medicare care. A figure in parentheses is a shortfall. Like bad debt, it is not community benefit on the IRS form.
Source: Form 990, Lester E Cox Medical Centers, EIN 44-0577118, fiscal year ending 2025-09, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title.
§2Community benefit versus charity care
The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($145.1M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.
§3Filings in this system
| Filing entity | EIN | FY end | Revenue | Charity care | % of expenses | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | 44-0577118 | 2025-09 | $2.0B | $37.4M | 1.94% | 990 |
| Skaggs Community Hospital Association | 44-0584290 | 2025-09 | $315.0M | $9.7M | 3.34% | 990 |
| Cox-Monett Hospital Inc | 43-1656689 | 2025-09 | $76.7M | $2.2M | 3.17% | 990 |
| Cox Barton County Hospital | 82-3300758 | 2025-09 | $33.7M | $926,495 | 2.92% | 990 |
Every number on this page was copied from the filing linked above. If a figure is wrong, send the filing that contradicts it and the correction runs at the top of this page.
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